450 



TIMDLim^. 



25, GRAMMATOPTILA. 



Keropia, pt., aitct. recent., nee Gray. Type. 



Turnagva, pt., mict. recent., nee Less. 



Grainmatoptila, Reichenh. Syst. Av. pi. Ixxxv. fig. 8 



(1850) G. striata. 



Kittasoma, Blt/th, 1855 {teste Gray) , G. striata. 



Range. Himalayas, extending to the hills of Eastern Bengal. 



1. Grammatoptila striata. 



Garnilus striatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 7 ; Gould, Cent. B. Himal. 



Mts. pi. 37 (1832) ; Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pis. 181, 182 (nos. 266, 267). 

 Keropia striata, Hodgs. in Graifs Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; Gray, List 



Gen. B. 1840, p. 28 ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 178 (1842) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 374 (1850) ; Horsf. S)- Moore, Cat. B. E.L Co. Mus. i. 



p. 209 (1854). 

 Timiagra striata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 227 (1840) ; id. Cat. Mamm. 



etc. Ne^mlprcs. Hodgs. p. 85 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 95 (1849) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 284, no. 4203 (1869). 

 Grammatoptila striata, Reichenh. Syst. Av. Nat. pi. Ixxxv. fig. 8 



(1850) ; Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 11 (1863) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 298 ; 



Hume, Nests Sj- Eqgs Ind. B. p. 237 (1873) ; Godicin-Austen, 



J.A.S. Bene/, xlvii. p. 15 (1878); Ball, Str. F. 1878, Yol. ii. 



p. 234 ; Scully, Str. F. 1879, p. 287 ; Hime, Str. F. 1879, p. 95. 

 Kittasoma striata, Blyth, 1855 (teste Gray). 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, with a slight olive 

 wash, especially on the rump and upper tail-coverts, every feather 

 having a distinct white streak down the centre, this central white 

 streak having an obscure marginal shade of dusky ; wing-coverts 

 rather more reddish than the back, with fulvous shaft-streaks ; x^ri- 

 mary-coverts reddish brown, dusky at tip ; quills dull reddish brown, 

 dusky towards the tips, externally rufous-brown, the primaries 

 more or less ashy grey on the outer webs, rufescent towards their 

 bases ; the innermost secondaries washed with olivaceous and having 

 white shafts like the back ; tail-feathers reddish brown, externally 

 rufous-brown, lighter at their tips, the outermost margined at the 

 end with pale ashy ; head very much crested ; crown of head and 

 nape brighter rufous-brown than the back, with white shaft-lines ; 

 lores rufous buff, with white shaft-lines ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and 

 throat dark rufous-brown, with distinct shaft-streaks of white ; 

 remainder of under surface of body light ashy brown, with broad 

 dull white streaks down the centre of the feathers, these streaks 

 relieved by a dusky lateral margin and a narrow shaft-line of 

 pure white, the streaks becoming more and more obscure towards 

 the abdomen, which has a more uniform appearance ; under tail- 

 coverts light ashy brown, streaked with dull white like the breast ; 

 thighs dark olive-brown, with ashy-white mesial streaks ; asiUaries 



